From Devil's Party Press, publishers of the award-winning anthologies EQUINOX, SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, and SOLSTICE, comes a new collection of 55 short stories, poems, and reflections. From the introduction: "The authors we publish are the voices of experience, of triumph, of tragedy, and of life. They’re bad-asses, one and all. WHAT SORT OF FUCKERY IS THIS? is a celebration of their unique badassery. INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL FOLLOWING WORKS: • The Fuckery of It All: An Introduction by Dianne Pearce • I am the man who yells at his wife, "Bitch, I’ll put a cap in your ass!" by Bill Ayres • If You’re Going Through Hell, Go Through the Back Room by Maureen McVeigh • The Last Lootenant Wins His Fuckin’ Medal by William F. Crandell • Not Getting Flirted With at the Fucking Gym by John Sheirer • How the Fuck Are You? by Judith Speizer Crandell • Hell No! We Won’t Go! by David W. Dutton • What the Fuck: Monday Morning Strike by Claire McCabe • Sonnet for Shitty, Rotten Love by Claire McCabe • Those Damned Sunday Vices: View from the Third Floor by Claire McCabe • One Badass Snowflake by Lisa Fox • He’s My Man, Damn It! by Liliana Widocks • I Fuck Men Up by Laura Nelson • A Fucking Catastrophe by V.L. Brunskill • Dear Beguiling Fifth of Vodka, or, Oh Shit, What Really Happened the Night I Claimed I Got So Sick Because I Ate a Hotdog at My Girlfriend’s Graduation Party Given by Her Parents by Alice Morris • Hot Damn, if Only That Painter Had Not Gotten Out of Bed by Alice Morris • Damn, the Problem With the Word French Fries by Alice Morris • Don’t Be a Bitch by David Sturm • Screwed by a Lake Trout Called Sir Jack by Sarah Leamy • My Old Cock Blues by William Butler • When Cornholing Wasn’t a Game by William Butler • A Tattooed Asshole by William Butler • Cock Tale, Dick Dialogue, Penis Patter by Felix Pire • Shitty Mushrooms by Philippa Hawley • Unnatural Shitbags by Carolyn Colburn • Another Day at the Fucking Office by Krystina Schuler • A Meditation on Lust and the Karmic Tab for Kinky Shit by Howard Brown • Bitch Delivery for Mister Fucker by Rémi Savard • Full of Shit at His Age Now by Paul Milenski • The Red Fucking Converse of Sergio Menendez by Felix Pire • Fucking Songbird by K.T. Vanderlaag • Daemon Fenroy, God of the Fucked by Janna Miller • The Shit Collector by Mark Kodama • broken as fuck by Lola Steel • ’Cause Dammit, I’m Alive by Anthony Crutcher • Huffy Wee Fuckin Bampot by Jan McGuire • For the Love of Fuck by Les Zig • “You’re fucking coming to hell with me, puta” by Alberto Ambard • My Neighbor’s a Fucking Monster by Andrea Goyan • Resting Bitch Face by Terri Clifton • The Self-Mindfuck by Luanne Castle • Fucking Other Men’s Daughters by Mark Hein • Shakespeare, Where the Fuck Art Thou? by Paulene Turner • On Fucking Oneself by Desiree Harvey • Stop Fucking Up the Gene Pool by Noel Alcoba • Attacked by a Fucking Fish … A Love Story by Leslie Wibberley • Wrong Fucking Number by John Sheirer • Cocksucker by Eric Machan Howd • Fucked Up Young by Eric Machan Howd • Mannish Cunt by Eric Machan Howd • The Goddamned Rug by Dianne Pearce

A post-apocalyptic adventure of tiny proportions. Venture into the unknown, into a time when society has broken down and every man, woman and child (and the odd monster or alien) must fight for themselves.

What miracles can one hundred debut to bestselling authors do with 100 words?

The word ‘literary’ is defined as ‘concerning the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form’. That’s important. When dealing with literary fiction, we are looking for something beyond the tropes, templates, recurring images and themes of genre fiction — we’re looking for connections we wouldn’t normally expect, dimensions we hadn’t thought of ourselves, and resonances which strike us as unique and beautiful. This is what this book is full of: from the poetic to the sardonic, from the beautiful to the tragic, we have here a collection that holds up the mirror to human nature and the world in which it finds itself. It’s unlikely that you will put this book down unchanged.

Tall Tales & Short Stories Volume One showcases 50 excellent flash fiction stories that take you on a multi-genre voyage of discovery across space, time and place.

Despite their brevity, these tiny tales get right to the heart of what makes us human. They'll tug at your heart strings, horrify, amuse and make you think, the words lingering in your mind long after you finish reading.

A collection of talented authors, known names and new, from across the planet have penned compelling stories of birth, love and lust, heartache and revenge, death and the afterlife. Throw in aliens and angels, alcoholic bulls and alternative histories, hauntings and huntings, oh and a cowbot! What's not to love about this anthology?

Erika lived a careless life, unattached and uncommitted. Young and beautiful, she navigated the night life in Vegas seeking nothing more than a good time. Or did she? A perfect disguise for a professional assassin: The Black Widow, hiding in plain sight. Also included in this anthology are “Land of the Pharaohs,” “The Red Velvet Cupcake Murders, and “A Better Life.”

Flash fiction is often a small, vivid illustration or incident which fades into a larger, wider, unspoken background. The power lies in the unsaid, the inferred, the after-thrill which comes as the ephemeral piece ends, leaving you, the reader, transfixed and transformed. Enjoy this set of sixty experiences, brought to you by new and established authors from around the world. Flash fiction is often a small, vivid illustration or incident which fades into a larger, wider, unspoken background. The power lies in the unsaid, the inferred, the after-thrill which comes as the ephemeral piece ends, leaving you, the reader, transfixed and transformed. Enjoy this set of sixty experiences, brought to you by new and established authors from around the world.

You’ll find dragons and other mysterious beasts aplenty in this book, along with spaceships and ray guns and witches and robots and futures good and bad. You’ll sometimes be shocked and chilled; at other times, you’ll be amused and touched. Step into universes which both extend our own and which lead far beyond the beaded curtain of the stars into worlds we have never known.

Writers are spellbinders, wizards, witches, working their magic with words, entrancing and enchanting us. Not for nothing does the word ‘spell’ mean a sequence of letters and a form of words used as a magical charm or incantation. In these tales, the sorcery has been restricted so that its glamour has to work in the space of fifty, five hundred or a thousand words: and work it does, as you will see. From disturbing darkness to light-hearted laughter, the authors within weave their wizardry, making you weep and laugh, feel and think, shiver and gasp, always wanting to turn the page.

In these stories, you can experience not only joy over and over again as complex and befuddling lines of enquiry resolve into simplicities, but also see what new and experienced authors have done with the format of the crime, mystery and thriller genres, twisting them in new directions, surprising you in new ways, delighting you with new visions.

From the traditional old-fashioned country houses in which puzzling crimes have detained important guests, to grim and disturbing urban transgressions, to gripping thrillers with unforeseen twists, prepare to be entertained and enthralled. These skilful writers know how to bamboozle you, commanding your attention before you are aware of it, leaving you guessing all the way.

But more than that: you’ll often find within these stories a profound understanding of humanity, both its criminals and its crazies, as well as its heroes and heroines.

Intense, keen, extreme, sincere, deeply felt, wholehearted - you’ll find stories within ranging from the amusing to the overwhelming, from the earnest to the cute. Clarendon House has once again drawn together a selection of fabulous talents to weave you into their story worlds so that you will scarcely believe what can be done in less than 2,000 words per tale. Perfect if you want to relish the moments; ideal if you desire entertainment on-the-run; essential if you’re eager to see what the future has to offer in terms of great writers - this is the book for you.

A whole range is here, from the almost incomprehensible but energetic, to the light-hearted and the profound, to the serene and transcendent. You’ll find poets who are raw in their talent, and others who are well-practised; you’ll discover things that you never dreamed of and have thoughts you could never quite put into words appearing on the page before you. Enjoy the magic.